[Fab-user] Using Fabric with web.py/Flask/Bottle

[John Kelly]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if anyone on the list has any experience using Fabric with 
any Python web micro-frameworks, like Flask, Bottle or web.py? I've got a 
Fabric 'deploy' task that takes ~3 minutes to complete, and it's very verbose 
on the command line (by design). I would like to incorporate this into a 
framework so that I can present users with a form to do the deployment and 
allow them to see this same output from the Fabric task.

Our tools use Fabric as a library, so I got the first part working in just a 
couple of lines -- the form passes the correct arguments to the task, which 
goes off and does the deployment. Unfortunately, while this is happening, the 
browser remains blank and the user is left not knowing what state their 
deployment is in. 

I've tried wrapping the deployment call in a definition and yield'ing each line 
of the output, but this doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I could muddle through 
and hack something together eventually, but I'd just thought it might be worth 
checking here to see if anyone had any success with this already.

Thanks!
jk